日前,苏格兰邓迪大学的研究者们在研究人类基因如何行使功能方面获得重大突破,这一进展将为科学家研究诸如癌症、老年痴呆症等疾病中的基因功能失调提供有力的工具。几十年前,科学实验证明了基因活动在人类疾病和正常的身体功能中十分重要,而现在,这一新成果让研究者们第一次得以直接观察到单个基因的活动。邓迪大学生命科学院细胞和发育系的研究员乔纳森·丘伯博士,与纽约的研究者合作, Recently, researchers at the University of Dundee in Scotland have made major breakthroughs in studying how human genes function, and this progress will provide scientists with powerful tools for studying gene dysfunctions in diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s. Decades ago, scientific experiments proved that gene activity is very important in human diseases and normal body functions, and now this new result allows researchers to directly observe the activity of a single gene for the first time. Jonathan Chopper, a researcher at the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Dundee, in collaboration with researchers in New York City,